During the Munich Games, Palestinian militant outfit Black September took the Israeli national team hostage on September 5, 1972, eventually slaughtering eleven athletes and coaches and one German police officer after a 16-hour ordeal. For the first time in modern Olympic history, competition was suspended for a memorial service held in the Olympic Stadium attended by 80,000 spectators and 3,000 athletes. (Photo: Getty Images)

During a quarterfinal against Bulgaria's Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg on April 30, 1993, Monica Seles was leading 6-4, 4-3, when Gunter Parche, an obsessed Steffi Graf fan, ran from the middle of the crowd to the edge of the court during a break between games and stabbed Seles between her shoulder blades. She was quickly rushed to a hospital. Although her physical injuries took only a few weeks to heal, she did not return to competitive tennis for more than two years. Though she won the Australian Open in 1996, she was never able to recapture the form that she had before the stabbing. (Photo: Getty Images)

During the 1994 World Cup, the Colombian team lost 2-1 to their American hosts, with Andreas Escobar scoring in his own goal, leading to their elimination. Escobar returned to his country after his team's exit. On the evening of July 2, 1994, Escobar called his friends, and they went to a bar in the El Poblado, Medellin neighbourhood. Then they went to a liquor store. Shortly afterwards, they arrived at the El Indio nightclub. His friends split up. At approximately 3 am, when Escobar was alone in the parking lot of the bar, three men appeared and began arguing with him. Two of the men took out handguns and shot him six times. (Photo: Getty Images)

Former Australian batsman David Hookes, then the coach of Victoria, was celebrating his team's win over South Australia, outside a St. Kilda Hotel, in Melbourne when a brawl ensued on January 18, 2004. A bouncer named Zdravco Micevic was charged with assaulting Hookes, who suffered head injuries and died a day later. (Photo: Getty Images)

En route to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, the Sri Lankan team bus was attacked by roughly a dozen gunmen, who fired an assault of rockets, grenades and multiple rounds of ammunition at the cricketers and their police escorts on March 3, 2009. Eight were killed and six injured. Dilshan and Samaraweera were shot. Pakistan haven't hosted an international team since. (Photo: Getty Images)

The Togolese team was travelling through the Angolan province of Cabinda for the African Nations Cup tournament when terrorists opened fire after it had crossed the border from the Republic of the Congo into the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda on January 8, 2010. A little-known offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), a group promoting independence for the province of Cabinda, known as the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda claimed responsibility for the attack. The bus driver, the team's assistant manager and media officer were killed, with several others injured. (Photo: Getty Images)

Terror Attack at Munich Olympics

During the Munich Games, Palestinian militant outfit Black September took the Israeli national team hostage on September 5, 1972, eventually slaughtering eleven athletes and coaches and one German police officer after a 16-hour ordeal. For the first time in modern Olympic history, competition was suspended for a memorial service held in the Olympic Stadium attended by 80,000 spectators and 3,000 athletes. (Photo: Getty Images)